Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-15
NNESOTA NEWS.


Andrew Falk, died from sunstroke at
Red Wing. }, .5*
Thus far. the high license has red deemed the
members OF saloons about one hall
/ At New Ulm, the dwelling house 81 Mrs.
/ s. Kneles was burned. Loss, 81, 100.
8. Bergyin was commissioned as post
master at Lambert, MINI.
Mankato increases it's assessed valu-
alton one third Tor 1897 5-... :
At Fergus Falls, the warehouses belong.
ing to the Standard Oil company burned.
The Milwaukee d st. Paul will remove
/ it's division headquarters from Bird Is
land to Montevideo.
Hon. Chas. E. Lehman. ofMontgomery,
received a kick from a horse which badly
disfgured him.
The confectionery store Of George
Thomas Of Mankato was entered and $50
in money and s14o in goods taken. =
At Verndale, fire destroyed the farm
buildings OF j. D. Wilson. The loss is
heavy, but partly covered by insurance.
At Albert Lea n. Beck was found guilty
OF selling liquor without license and was
fined SIS and costs.
Register Coiville and Receiver Maginnis
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places as officers OF the Duluth land Office.
At owatonna, p. Bliss, stationer and
book dealer, was closed by attachment.
He viii make an assignment.
Mr.. j. S. Anderson OF Austin has been
promoted to the position OF assistant mas
ter mechanic OF the Milwaukee & St. Paul.
having charge OF the Iowa & Minnesota,
| Iowa d Dakota.
A two-year-old girl Of Frank Farrell OF
Lyle town, Mower Co., wandered from
home and was found drowned in Cedar riv-
er.
James D. Claunch, who was injured in a
fall, from water tank died at Austin OF
his injuries, and was buried by the Odd
Fellows society.
George MacLish, q stranger. aged twenty.
eight years. was drowned in the Minneso ta
river at Belle Plaine while bathing. One
| OF his companions says he was from
Belfast, Ireland.
At Herman, the four-year.old daughter
OF A. c. Earshey fell from a balcony six.
teen feet and received serious if not fatal
injuries.
Miss Luella Banks OF Minneapolis wants
a divorce from w. H. Banks, who, she
says, has got married twice since leaving
| her.
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the city OF Mankato for $4,000 personal
injuries, the jury returned a verdict Of $500
for the plaintiff.
The state dental society will meet in
Minneapolis July ID, IA and Is. About
1875 are expected. The meetings will be
held at the Nicollet and the clinics at the
Minnesota College hospital.
| The suicide OF a. young man named Burt
| Wood is reported from Amboy. He shot
himself in the head with rifle twice, ter.
ribly mutilating his face, and lived about
twelve hours in great pain. He was aged
twenty five, and did the deed in q fit OF
temporary insanity.
E. Blake, aged seventy four, died at his
home in Mankato recently OF cancer in the
! stomach He leaves a family OF seven
sons and four daughters, several OF whom
reside in Mankato. where he has lived for
many years.
| At Mankato, there has been paid into
the city treasurer SIS, 900 under the high
license law, thirty licenses having been
taken out at $500 each. Three moro will
probably be taken out, making the num-
| Der thirty three. This is but ten less than
at the old figure OF $3.50.
A dispatch from Lumsbord Fillmore
county says: For the first time in the his.
| tory of Southeastern Minnesota an almost
total failure of crops is likely to be expert
enced. The fields are alive with chinch bugs,
and together with drouth they have made
an aim ost clean sweep OF wheat and barley
and are now attacking corn and oats.
Farmers are cutting their wheat and bar.
ley for feed. The hay crop is failure
| owning to the prolonged hot and dry wealth.
| err. Some farmers are surrounding their
corn fields with tarred boards to prevent
the migration OF chinch bugs thithor.
A double wedding occurred st Melrose, in
which Lois Wheeler is united to Clark
Evans of St. Paul and Miss Ella Wheeler
to Perry Lindburg OF Melrose.
Mike Mcnamara was shot through the
heart by T. F. McDonough in West Side
St. Paul saloon. The stricken man stag.
gered up the street and dropped dead in the
arms OF his sister. The murderer was
arrested, and acknowledged the crime,
but claims it was in self-defense. The
quarrel was all about d. org.
A telegram has been received by Adit
Gen. seeley from Adjt. Gen. Drum, U. S.
A., containing the following The Sec
Rotary OF war approves your re-
quest for the detail OF Capt. Groesbeck to
inspect the national guard camp OF Man.
kato. The commanding general OF the de.
partment of Dakota has been instructed
accordingly by telegraph.
The proposition to issue $40, 900 bonds
in aid Of Duluth, Red Wing, and Southern
railroad was carried in Steele county by a
majority OF 42S with towns all heard from
except one which may reduce it to 400.
On the Fourth, at the state prison in
Saltwater, every prisoner was turned
lose in the corridor and the fullest liberty
for conversation and visiting given. Here.
tofore on holiday occasions prison ers were
allowed to visit each other in locked cells,
but the long bar was lifted and all me
out into comparative freed ON. While the
men were asse mbled, as many as possible
! on the lower floor and others in the GAL
leries, the warden addressed them in a few
off-hand remarks, saying that each would
be treated like a man when nothing offend.
| ing against square shouldered manhood
was manifested. He however, gave time,
I warning that infractions OF the rules
would be pun isaed at once and severely.
He commended the mass on their good
! conduct and when he finished great shouts
OF approval went up from the imprisoned
men. Convicts SHOEMAKER and Lands
arose to remark that the new style OF
discipline and treatment inaugurated by
! Warden Stordock had made them more
| obedlent and patient prisoners and had
! added to their own selfrespect. A convict
named Jackson said he was g. bad man
! and ':you all know it," but he appreciated
the privileges, and when go out it will
be with q resolve to be a better man."
He added, "Others here have said so. /
suppose, but l feel it," After time the
imprisoned men we're given an unusually
good dinner, and all who wished enjoyed a
good cigar, proffered by the warden. :, n.
/ At the council meeting at Sleepy Eye tho
I $50, 900 of city fire bonds was sold to the
Merchants bank OF that place at premi-
/ Fo3% IL.
years and draw Z per cent interest.
The annual agricultural statement for
Ramsey county prepared by Auditor Kahn
shows the following total average planted
this season in the county: Wheat, ], 452
4 acres oats 1929: corn. LIB barley.